Method for high-precision true color three-dimensional reconstruction of a mechanical component

ABSTRACT

A method for high-precision true color three dimensional reconstruction of mechanical component. Firstly performs image acquisition: the left and right high-resolution grayscale cameras are fixed at same height and spaced at certain distance, an optical transmitter fixed between the two grayscale cameras, and low-resolution color camera fixed above optical transmitter, thus images of measured high-precision mechanical component are shot. Then performs image processing: all images are transmitted to a computer, which uses image processing to record surface information of measured high-precision mechanical component in the point cloud by high-precision true color three-dimensional reconstruction, which reflects color texture information of the surface, so as to realize the non-contact high-precision true color three dimensional reconstruction of high-precision mechanical component. The method uses binocular high-precision grayscale cameras instead of binocular color cameras, which broadens the range of capture wavelengths, retains richer texture details of high-precision mechanical component and improves accuracy of measurement.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

This application claims priorities under the Paris Convention to Chinese Patent Application No. 202210106295.5, filed on Jan. 28, 2022, the entirety of which is hereby incorporated by reference for all purposes as if fully set forth herein.

The present invention relates to the field of Three Dimensional (3D) reconstruction, more particularly to a method for high-precision true color three dimensional reconstruction of a mechanical component.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

In technical fields such as aviation, aerospace and deep-sea exploration, the structures of some key high-precision mechanical components are becoming more and more complex. For those of high-precision mechanical components, high-precision should be guaranteed in the process of manufacturing, otherwise when in use, they will threaten the normal operation of other mechanical components and reduce the life of system, and even make it failed to realize the system function, which may lead to catastrophic consequences. Therefore, in the process of manufacturing high-precision mechanical components, in order to guarantee that they meet the high-precision design requirements, it is necessary to perform high-precision measurements on the high-precision mechanical components to detect the surface texture and verify whether they meet the accuracy requirements of the design. The high-precision measurements pose a higher challenge to the accuracy of the measuring instrument itself.

The traditional binocular structured light system is relatively mature and can realize the high-precision 3D point cloud reconstruction of a target object. It is widely used in the high-precision measurements of the high-precision mechanical components of various equipments, such as military satellite and aerospace aircraft, in which it has achieved very good results. However, for the traditional structured light binocular 3D reconstruction method, high measurement accuracy can be obtained by combing a pair of grayscale cameras with coded structured light. But only the geometric texture of a target object can be reconstructed by inversely calculating the depth information through the monochromatic coded light. In some application scenarios, it is necessary to interactively apply the generated 3D point space data and color to generate real color point cloud data, which realizes the fusion of color information and position information, truly restores the surface information of a mechanical component, greatly enriches the surface features of the mechanical component and can be more effectively applied to the subsequent steps, such as feature recognition, target acquisition and separation.

In prior art, it is based on color-coded fringe light and binocular color cameras to solve the problem of true color 3D reconstruction. On the one hand, considering that the current high-resolution color cameras are expensive, the introduction of color cameras and color raster projectors greatly increases the construction cost of the system; On the other hand, processing the multi-channel information of the color cameras will greatly increase the computation cost and reduce the system efficiency. In addition, compared with grayscale camera, color camera only receive photons in three bands of red, green and blue, and the neighborhood average operation is used for demosaicing during the imaging process, resulting in the loss of a large number of image details. The original color information on the surface of the target object will also interfere with the color-coded information of the color-coded structured light, which greatly limits the measurement accuracy. Generally speaking, the true color 3D reconstruction system in prior art has high detection cost, and the large amount of computation leads to slow measurement speed, and it is difficult to realize high-precision true color 3D point cloud reconstruction.

In order to realize the full-scale reconstruction of a mechanical component, it is necessary to stitch the reconstructed information of all poses. The traditional point cloud registration algorithms are roughly divided into two categories: method based on point-to-point distance minimization and method based on point-to-plane distance minimization. The traditional point-to-point distance minimization method used in accurate point cloud registration has a high computation cost, and the volume of high-precision point cloud reconstruction data is large, resulting in a long convergence time of the algorithm, and the convergence is not as good as the point-to-plane distance minimization method. Down sampling or key point extraction before point cloud stitching can greatly reduce the number of points involved in the operation and shorten the system calculation time. Although using the point-to-plane distance minimization method after key point extraction can guarantee the convergence speed, the point-to-plane distance minimization method is affected by the error of the point's normal vector estimation, resulting the accuracy is not as high as that of the point-to-point distance minimization method. Therefore, a combination of point-to-plane distance minimization method and point-to-point distance minimization method can be considered to ensure fast convergence and the accuracy of high-precision point cloud stitching.

At the same time, in order to give color information to high-precision point cloud data, it is necessary to fuse the real color information of the surface of a mechanical component under the premise of ensuring data accuracy, which involves the fusion of high-resolution grayscale image and low-resolution color image. Common image fusion method assumes that the source images and the target images have the same resolution, or a relationship of scaling in the same proportion. However, in practical applications, the resolutions of the multi-source images to be fused do not always appear in the form of equal or equal proportions.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention aims to overcome the deficiencies of the prior art, and provides a method for high-precision true color three dimensional reconstruction of a mechanical component, so as to realize a non-contact high-precision measurement of key high-precision component in the aerospace and other fields, at the same time, to improve the existing point cloud stitching method and solve the problem of arbitrary resolution image fusion, guarantee the measurement accuracy of the system, and improve the measurement speed of the system.

To achieve these objectives, in accordance with the present invention, a method for high-precision true color three dimensional reconstruction of a mechanical component is provided, comprising:

(1). image acquisition

1.1). fixing a left high-resolution grayscale camera and a right high-resolution grayscale camera on a support device, where the right high-resolution grayscale camera and the left high-resolution grayscale camera are at the same height and spaced at a certain distance;

fixing an optical transmitter between the left high-resolution grayscale camera and right high-resolution grayscale camera and a low-resolution color camera above the optical transmitter;

1.2). adjusting the left high-resolution grayscale camera, the right high-resolution grayscale camera, the optical transmitter and the low-resolution color camera, so that a measured high-precision mechanical component can be completely and clearly captured by the cameras and the optical transmitter can completely and clearly project non-coded light and coded light on the surface of the measured high-precision mechanical component;

adjusting a calibration plate and using Zhang's calibration method to complete a camera calibration;

1.3). placing the measured high-precision mechanical component at a suitable position in the view of the cameras, then rotating the measured high-precision mechanical component in a fixed direction and acquiring images of J poses:

for the measured high-precision mechanical component of the j^(th) pose, firstly the optical transmitter projects a non-coded light on the surface of the measured high-precision mechanical component, the low-resolution color camera takes image which is denoted by low-resolution color image CI_(j), the left high-resolution grayscale camera takes an image which is denoted by left high-resolution grayscale image LI_(j), then the optical transmitter projects N frames of encoded light on the surface of the measured high-precision mechanical component, the left high-resolution grayscale camera and right high-resolution grayscale camera respectively take a grayscale image which are respectively denoted by LI _(jn), and RI _(jn), n=1, 2, . . . , N;

(2). image processing

2.1). reconstructing a three-dimensional point cloud of the measured high-precision mechanical component of each pose: based on the principle of binocular camera, reconstructing a three-dimensional point cloud P_(j) of the j^(th) pose by using the grayscale images LI _(j1), LI _(j2), . . . , LI _(jN) and RI _(j1), RI _(j2), . . . , RI _(jN) of the j^(th) pose, where j=1, 2, . . . , J;

2.2). performing registrations on 3D point clouds to calculate a rigid body transformation matrix W_(j) by using the three-dimensional point cloud P_(j) as a target point cloud and the three-dimensional point cloud P_(j+1) of the (j+1)^(th) pose as a source point cloud, where j=1, 2, . . . , J−1:

2.2.1). respectively performing voxel down sampling on the target point cloud P_(j) and the source point cloud P_(j+1), where the voxel down sampled target point cloud is denoted by the target point cloud P_(j_down), and the voxel down sampled source point cloud is denoted by the source point cloud P_(j+1_down), and respectively performing 3D-SIFT key point extraction on the target point cloud P_(j_down) and the target point cloud P_(j+1_down), where the extracted target point cloud is denoted by a target point cloud P_(j_key), the extracted source point cloud is denoted by a source point cloud P_(j+1_key);

2.2.2). initializing iteration number k=1, setting a maximum iteration number K_(c_reg), setting an iteration number K_(pp) which is used for shifting a point-to-plane error function to a point-to-point error function, initializing transformed source point cloud P_(j+1_key_1) to the source point cloud P_(j+1_key);

2.2.3). for the k^(th) iteration, to each point of the source point cloud P_(j+1_key_k), finding the nearest point in the target point cloud P_(j_key) as its corresponding point by using KD tree to obtain a corresponding point-to-point set C_(j+1_key_k), then removing the point and its nearest point whose distance is great than threshold Thres to obtain a optimized point-to-point set C_(j_key_k)′;

2.2.4). homogenizing the i^(th) point p_(j+1_key_ki) of the source point cloud P_(j+1_key_k) in point-to-point set C_(j_key_k)′ to obtain its corresponding vector p _(j+1_key_ki)=(x_(j+1_key_ki),y_(j+1_key_ki),z_(j+1_key_ki),1)^(T), finding corresponding point p_(j_key_i) of the target point cloud P_(j_key) in point-to-point set C_(j_key_k)′ and homogenizing it to obtain its corresponding vector p _(j_key_i)=(x_(j_key_i),y_(j_key_i),z_(j_key_i),1)^(T), where i=1, 2, . . . , N_(cj_key_k), N_(cj_key_k) is the number of point-to-point set C_(j_key_k)′;

if iteration number k is less than K_(pp), then constructing a point-to-plane error function F_(jk) by using the distance from the point p_(j+1_key_ki) to the tangent plane of point p_(j_key_i) of target point cloud P_(j_key), where the error function F_(jk) is:

$F_{jk} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N_{{cj}\;\_\;{key}\;\_\; k}}\left( {\left( {{W_{jk} \cdot {\overset{\_}{p}}_{{({j + 1})}\_\;{key}\;\_\;{ki}}} - {\overset{\_}{p}}_{j\;\_\;{key}\;\_\; i}} \right) \cdot n_{j\;\_\;{key}\;\_\; i}} \right)^{2}}$

where n_(j_key_i) is the normal vector corresponding to point p_(j_key_i), W_(jk) is the transformation matrix of the k^(th) iteration;

if iteration number k is nor less than K_(pp), then constructing a point-to-point error function F_(jk) according to the sum of the squares of the distances between the corresponding points, where the error function F_(jk) is:

${F_{jk} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N_{{cj}\;\_\;{key}\;\_\; k}}{{{W_{jk} \cdot {\overset{\_}{p}}_{{({j + 1})}\_\;{key}\;\_\;{ki}}} - {\overset{\_}{p}}_{j\;\_\;{key}\;\_\; i}}}^{2}}};$

2.2.5). calculating the transformation matrix W_(jk) that makes the value of error function F_(jk) minimum, and then applying a transformation to the source point cloud P_(j+1_key_k) by using error function F_(jk) to obtain a source point cloud P_(j+1_key_(k+1)) and recording the value of error function F_(jk) at the k^(th) iteration;

2.2.6). judging whether the variation |F_(jk)−F_(j(k−1))| of the value of error function of two consecutive iterations is less than a threshold e or iteration number k reaches the maximum iteration number K_(c_reg);

if yes, then recording the point-to-point set C_(j_key_k′)′ at the k′^(th) iteration, where k′ is the iteration number when the judgment condition is met, and calculating the optimal rigid body transformation matrix W_(j)=W_(jk), W_(j(k′−1)) . . . W_(j1), where the optimal rigid body transformation matrix W_(j) is a matrix of 4×4, its formation is:

$W_{j} = \begin{bmatrix} R_{{cloud}\;\_\; j} & T_{{cloud}\;\_\; j} \\ \overset{\rightarrow}{0} & 1 \end{bmatrix}$

where R^(cloud_j) is a rotation matrix of 3×3 which registers the source point cloud P_(j+1_key) to the target point cloud P_(j_key), T_(cloud_j) is a translation vector of 1×3, {right arrow over (0)} is a row vector of 3×1;

if no, k=k+1, and returning step 2.2.3);

2.3). fusing the left high-resolution image LI_(j) with the low-resolution color image CI_(j) of the j^(th) pose, j=1, 2, . . . , m

2.3.1). calculating a projection matrix H_(j) for registering the low-resolution color image CI_(j) to the left high-resolution image LI_(j):

2.3.1.1). respectively extracting SURF feature points from the low-resolution color image CI_(j) and the left high-resolution image LI_(j), and taking the extracted SURF feature points as key points;

2.3.1.2). to each key point of the low-resolution color image CI_(j), finding the closest key point and the next closest key point in the left high-resolution image LI_(j) according to Euclidean distance, if the ratio of the distance of the closest key point to the distance of the next closet key point is less than a set threshold θ, then determining the closest key point in the left high-resolution image LI_(j) as the matching point, thus a matching point pair set C_(cl_j) is obtained;

2.3.1.3). setting a maximum iteration number K_(p_reg) and an error threshold φ, initializing iteration number k=1, then optimizing the matching point pair set C_(cl_j) through random sampling consistency (RANSAC) algorithm to obtain the projection matrix H_(j):

2.3.1.3.1). for the k^(th) iteration in the process of optimizing the matching point pair set C_(cl_j), randomly selecting four point pairs, which are denoted respectively by {q_(cj_1), q_(lj_1)}, {q_(cj_2), q_(lj_2)}, {q_(cj_3), q_(lj_3)} and {q_(cj_4), q_(lj_4)}, and homogenizing them to obtain four point pairs {q _(cj_1), q _(lj_1)}, {q _(cj_2), q _(lj_2)}, {q _(cj_3), q _(lj_3)} and {q _(cj_4), q _(lj_4)}, then calculating a projection matrix H_(jk) between the four point pairs, which satisfies the following relationship:

q _(lj_i)=H_(jk)·q _(cj_i), 1, 2, . . . , 4

2.3.1.3.2). homogenizing a point pair {q_(cj_i), q _(lj_i)} other than the selected four point pairs from the matching point pair set C_(cl_j) to obtain point pair {q _(cj_i), q _(lj_i)} then calculating a mapping error ε_(jk_i)=∥q _(lj_i),H_(jk) q _(cj_i)∥ according to the projection matrix H_(jk), where i=5, 6, . . . , N_(cj), N_(cj) is the number of point pairs of the matching point pair set C_(cl_j), and selecting the point pair which mapping error ε_(jk_i)<φ to form a interior point set S_(jk);

2.3.1.3.3). if the last iteration has been performed, namely k=K_(p_reg), then comparing S_(j1), S_(j2), . . . , S_(jK) _(p_reg) to select the projection matrix H_(jk) as the projection matrix H_(j) when the interior point set S_(jk) is the largest, or k=k+1 and returning step 2.3.1.3.1;

2.3.2). registering the low-resolution color image CI_(j) to the left high-resolution image LI_(j) according to the projection matrix H_(j) to obtain a high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r):

2.3.2.1). creating a empty high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) which has the same size with the left high-resolution image LI_(j), then performing coordinate transformation on the pixels of the low-resolution color image CI_(j) to obtain a color image CI_(j);

2.3.2.2). determining the interpolation range: the pixel points of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) which are located on color image CI_(j) and other than the matching points in matching point pair set C_(cl_j) are the points which are needed to be interpolated, namely interpolation points;

2.3.2.3). using the bilinear interpolation method to interpolate the pixel values of all interpolation points: to the i^(th) interpolation point q_(cj_r_i)(x_(cj_r_i), y_(cj_r_i)), performing a inverse transformation according to the projection matrix H_(j) to obtain a pixel point ρ_(cj_i)(x_(cj_ρ_i), y_(cj_ρ_i)) located on the low-resolution color image CI_(j), and finding four nearest pixel points which are denoted respectively by p_(cj_ρ_i11)(x_(cj_ρ_i1), y_(cj_ρ_i1)), P_(cj_ρ_i12)(x_(cj_ρ_i1), y_(cj_ρ_i2)), p_(cj_ρ_i21)(x_(cj_ρ_i2), y_(cj_ρ_i1)) and p_(cj_ρ_i22)(x_(cj_ρ_i2), y_(cj_ρ_i2)):

firstly interpolating in the x direction to obtain the following:

${C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}} \right)}} = {{\frac{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i}}{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}} \right)}} + {\frac{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}} \right)}}}$ ${C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2}} \right)}} = {{\frac{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i}}{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2}} \right)}} + {\frac{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2}} \right)}}}$

then interpolating in the y direction to obtain the following pixel value:

${C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i}} \right)}} = {{Round}\mspace{14mu}\left( {{\frac{y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i}}{y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\ \left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}} \right)}} + {\frac{y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i} - y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}{y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2}} \right)}}} \right)}$

letting the pixel value CI_(j_r)(x_(cj_r_i), y_(cj_r_i)) of the interpolation point q_(cj_r_i)(x_(cj_r_i), y_(cj_r_i)) be CI_(j)(x_(cj_ρ_i), y_(cj_ρ_i));

2.3.2.4). to the pixel points of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) which are located on color image CI_(j) and are the matching points in matching point pair set C_(cl_j), directly using the pixel values of their corresponding matching point in the low-resolution color image CI_(j) to assign; and to the pixel points of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) which are not located on color image CI_(j), directly using preset RGB value to assign, thus the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) is obtained;

2.3.3). fusing the left high-resolution image LI_(j) with the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r):

2.3.3.1). performing N_(l)-layer Laplacian pyramid decomposition on the left high-resolution image LI_(j) to obtain N_(l) layers of image LI_(j_w), performing N_(l)-layer Laplacian pyramid decomposition on each channel of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) to obtain N_(l) layers of image CI_(j_rw) on R channel, N_(l) layers of image CI_(j_gw) on G channel and N_(l) layers of image CI_(j_bw) on B channel, where w=1, 2, . . . , N_(l) and represents the serial number of image;

2.3.3.2). respectively performing bilateral filter on the top-layer images CI_(j_rN) _(l) , CI_(j_gN) _(l) , CI_(j_bN) _(l) and LI_(j_N) _(l) to obtain top-layer images CI_(j_rN) _(l) _(_b), CI_(j_gN) _(l) _(_b); CI_(j_bN) _(l) _(_b) and LI_(j_N) _(l) _(_b);

2.3.3.3). to the top-layer images of three channels of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r), calculating the difference before and after bilateral filtering to obtain detail layer images CI_(j_rN) _(l) ′=CI_(j_rN) _(l) −CI_(j_rN) _(l_b) , CI_(j_gN) _(l) ′=CI_(j_gN) _(l) −CI_(j_gN) _(l) _(_b) and CI_(j_bN) _(l) ′=CI_(j_bN) _(l) −CI_(j_bN) _(l) _(_b), which have rich details of image;

2.3.3.4). performing Gaussian filter on the top-layer image of the left high-resolution image LI_(j) to obtain a overall smooth image LI_(j_N) _(l) _(_g), then calculating the difference between the top-layer image LI_(j_N) _(l) _(_b) and the overall smooth image LI_(j_N) _(l) _(_g) to obtain a layer image LI_(j_N) _(l) ′=LI_(j_N) _(l) _(_b)−_(j_N) _(l) _(_g) which has rich edge information;

2.3.3.5). calculating top-layer fusion images, where the top-layer fusion image of R channel is: Fu_(j_N) _(l) _(_r)=CI_(j_rN) _(l) +αCI_(j_rN) _(l) ′+βLI_(j_N) _(l) ′, the top-layer fusion image of G channel is: Fu_(j_N) _(l) _(_g)=CI_(j_gN) _(l) +αCI_(j_gN) _(l) ′+βLI_(j_N) _(l) ′, the top-layer fusion image of B channel is: Fu_(j_N) _(l) _(_r)=CI_(j_rN) _(l) +αCI_(j_rN) _(l) ′+βLI_(j_N) _(l) ′;

2.3.3.6). to the layer fusion images other than the top-layer fusion images, for the reason of retaining the rich color information, assigning the layer fusion images of R channel according to equation Fu=_(j_w_r)=CI_(j_rw), the layer fusion images of G channel according to equation Fu_(j_w_g)=CI_(j_gw) and the layer fusion images of B channel according to equation Fu_(j_w_b)=CI_(j_bw), where w=1, 2, . . . , N−1;

2.3.3.7). based on all layer fusion images of each color channel, performing N_(l)-layer Laplacian pyramid composition to obtain fusion images of each color channel, thus the color fusion image of the j^(th) pose is obtained and denoted by Fu_(j);

2.4). reconstructing a color point cloud:

2.4.1). performing color reconstruction on point cloud of each pose to obtain color point clouds {tilde over (P)}₁, {tilde over (P)}₂, . . . , {tilde over (P)}_(m):

2.4.1.1). to each point p_(ji)(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)) of the three-dimensional point cloud P_(j) of the measured high-precision mechanical component of the j^(th) pose, performing a coordinate system conversion from three-dimensional point to pixel point:

${Z_{c}\begin{bmatrix} a_{ji} \\ b_{ji} \\ 1 \end{bmatrix}} = {{\begin{bmatrix} f_{x} & 0 & u_{0} & 0 \\ 0 & f_{y} & v_{0} & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix} R_{c} & T_{c} \\ \overset{\rightarrow}{0} & 1 \end{bmatrix}}\begin{bmatrix} x_{ji} \\ y_{ji} \\ z_{ji} \\ 1 \end{bmatrix}}$

where z_(c) is a scale factor, f_(x) and f_(y) are respectively the focal lengths of camera in the x and y direction, u₀ and v₀ are respectively the coordinates of camera's main point on pixel plane, R_(c) and T_(c) are respectively the rotation matrix and the translation vector in camera calibration parameters, (a_(ji),b_(ji)) are the coordinates of the pixel point q_(ij) corresponding to the point p_(ji)(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)) of the three-dimensional point cloud P_(j), i is the serial number of the point;

2.4.1.2). obtaining pixel value R(a_(ji),b_(ji)) of R channel, pixel value G(a_(ji),b_(ji)) of G channel and pixel value B(a_(ji),b_(ji)) of B channel of pixel point at coordinates (a_(ji),b_(ji)) on the color fusion image Fu_(j), then assigning pixel values to the point p_(ji)(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)) of the three-dimensional point cloud P_(j) according to the following equations: R(x_(ji),y_(ji),z_(ji))=R(a_(ji),b_(ji)), G(x_(ji),y_(ji),z_(ji))=G(a_(ji),b_(ji)) and B(x_(ji),y_(ji),z_(ji))=B(a_(ji),b_(ji)) to obtain color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j), j=1, 2, . . . , m, where R(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)), G(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)) and B(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)) are respectively the point values of R, G and B channel of point p_(ji)(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)) of color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j);

2.4.2). registering the color point clouds of all poses:

based on the series of rigid body transformation matrices W₁, W₂, . . . , W_(m−1) which are obtained according to step 2.2, performing registration by respectively converting the color point clouds {tilde over (P)}₂, {tilde over (P)}₃, . . . , {tilde over (P)}_(m) to the coordinate system of the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}₁, where the color point clouds after conversion are respectively denoted by {tilde over (P)}₂*, {tilde over (P)}₃*, . . . , {tilde over (P)}_(m)*, there have: {tilde over (P)} ₂ *=W ₁ {tilde over (P)} ₂ {tilde over (P)} ₃ *=W ₁ W ₂ {tilde over (P)} ₃ . . . {tilde over (P)} _(m) *=W ₁ W ₂ . . . W _(m−1) {tilde over (P)} _(m)

2.4.3). fusing the overlapping part of the color point clouds:

setting {tilde over (G)}₁*={tilde over (P)}₁*={tilde over (P)}₁, then fusing the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}₂* with the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}₁* to obtain a color point cloud {tilde over (G)}₂* to j=2, 3, . . . m−1, successfully fusing the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)* with the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j)* to obtain a color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j+1)* and finally obtaining a fused overall color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(m)* that the high-precision true color three dimensional reconstruction is complete;

where the fusion of the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)* and the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j)* is:

to the matching point pair in the point-to-point set C_(j_key_k′)′, directly taking it as a correspondence point pair and putting it into a correspondence point pair set Co_(j);

to a non-matching point {tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*({tilde over (x)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (y)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (z)}_(j+1_i)*) of the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)*, finding the nearest point in the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)* by using KD tree, and then calculating the average value σ of all distances between non-matching points and their respective nearest points; simultaneously, to each non-matching point of the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j)*, finding the nearest point in the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)* by using KD tree, if the distance of the nearest point is less than the average value σ, then the non-matching point of the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j)* and its nearest point in the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)* are taken as a correspondence point pair and put into the correspondence point pair set Co_(j);

weighting geometric coordinates of each correspondence point pair {{tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*({tilde over (x)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (y)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (z)}_(j+1_i)*), {tilde over (g)}_(j_i)*({tilde over (x)}_(j_i)*, {tilde over (y)}_(j_i)*, {tilde over (z)}_(j_i)*)} in the correspondence point pair set Co_(j) with the weights α_(i) and β_(i) to obtain the coordinates of a fused point {tilde over (g)}_(j+1_i)*:

(α_(i){tilde over (x)}_(j+1_i)*+β_(i){tilde over (x)}_(j_i)*,α_(i){tilde over (y)}_(j+1_i)*+β_(i){tilde over (y)}_(j+1_i)*,α_(i){tilde over (z)}_(j+1_i)*+β_(i)z_(j_i)*)

respectively weighting the point values of R, G and B channel of each correspondence point pair {{tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*({tilde over (x)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (y)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (z)}_(j+1_i)*), {tilde over (g)}_(j_i)*({tilde over (x)}_(j_i)*, {tilde over (y)}_(j_i)*, {tilde over (z)}_(j_i)*)} in the correspondence point pair set Co_(j) with the weights (α_(ri),β_(ri)), (α_(gi),β_(gi)) and (α_(bi),β_(bi)) to obtain the point values R({tilde over (g)}_(j+1_i)*), G({tilde over (g)}_(j+1_i)*) and B({tilde over (g)}_(j+1_i)*) of R, G and B channel of the point {tilde over (g)}_(j+1_i)* of the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j+1)*: R({tilde over (g)} _(j+1_i)*)=α_(ri) R({tilde over (p)} _(j+1_i)*)+β_(ri) R({tilde over (g)} _(j_i)*) G({tilde over (g)} _(j+1_i)*)=α_(gi) G({tilde over (p)} _(j+1_i)*)+β_(gi) G({tilde over (g)} _(j_i)*) B({tilde over (g)} _(j+1_i)*)=α_(bi) B({tilde over (p)} _(j+1_i)*)+β_(bi) B({tilde over (g)} _(j_i)*)

where, i=1, 2, . . . , N_(coj), N_(coj) is the number of the correspondence point pairs, R({tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*), G({tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*) and ({tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*) are respectively the point values of R, G and B channel of the point {tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*, R({tilde over (g)}_(j_i)*), G({tilde over (g)}_(j_i)*) and B({tilde over (g)}_(j_i)*) are respectively the point values of R, G and B channel of the point {tilde over (g)}_(j_i)* of the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j+1)*.

The objectives of the present invention are realized as follows:

To the measurement of high-precision mechanical component, the present invention, a method for high-precision true color three dimensional reconstruction of a mechanical component, firstly performs image acquisition: the left and the right high-resolution grayscale cameras are fixed at the same height and spaced at a certain distance, an optical transmitter is fixed between the two high-resolution grayscale cameras, and a low-resolution color camera is fixed above the optical transmitter, where the two high-resolution grayscale cameras, the optical transmitter and low-resolution color camera are needed to be adjusted, so that a measured high-precision mechanical component can be completely and clearly captured by the cameras and the optical transmitter can completely and clearly project non-coded light and coded light on the surface of the measured high-precision mechanical component. After completing the calibration procedure, the computer will calculate the parameters of the binocular high-resolution grayscale camera. The tester places the measured high-precision mechanical component at the appropriate position in the field of view, and rotates measured high-precision mechanical component in the same direction to form multiple poses, and shoots a set of images of the measured high-precision mechanical component in each pose: non-coded light is projected by the optical transmitter, the low-resolution color camera and the left high-resolution grayscale camera capture two images at the same time, the optical transmitter continues to project the encoded light according to the set reconstruction rules, and the left and right high-resolution grayscale cameras simultaneously capture each frame coded light images. Then performs image processing: all images are transmitted to a computer, after the computer receives the images, it uses image processing to record the surface information of the measured high-precision mechanical component in the point cloud by means of high-precision true color three-dimensional reconstruction, which reflects the color texture information of the surface, so as to realize the non-contact high-precision true color three dimensional reconstruction of a high-precision mechanical component. The present invention uses binocular high-precision grayscale cameras instead of binocular color cameras, which greatly broadens the range of capture wavelengths, retains the richer texture details of high-precision mechanical component, and greatly improves the accuracy of measurement. The current color reconstruction system is mostly composed of a color camera and a projector. Since the processing of the color camera needs to perform operations on the information of the three channels: R, G, B. Under the premise of higher precision, the gray-scale camera is used instead of the color camera to reconstruct the geometric texture, and the calculation amount of the computer is also reduced. Meanwhile, the calculation amount of the gray-scale camera with the same resolution is only one third of that of the color camera, which greatly improves the measurement speed of the system. The present invention provides a method for high-precision true color three dimensional reconstruction of a mechanical component, which uses a low-resolution color camera to perform true-color fusion on point clouds obtained by a high-precision binocular camera system, and improves measurement accuracy and calculation speed under the premise of controlling system costs. Different from the traditional point cloud registration method, the present invention adopts key point extraction for down sampling, and under the premise of speeding up the operation speed, more representative points are obtained to participate in the subsequent registration process. The error function of the common point cloud registration method is constructed using the point-to-point distance. A more extensive improvement method is to replace the error function with the construction based on the point-to-plane distance. However, point-to-plane distance calculation requires a good estimation of the normal vector of the point cloud, and the down sampled point cloud will greatly reduce the registration accuracy or even make the registration fail. The improved point cloud registration algorithm proposed by the invention combines the point-to-plane rapid convergence characteristics and the point-to-point accuracy, and uses the “point-to-plane & point-to-point” combination method to construct an error function, which improves the registration efficiency and ensures the registration accuracy. For image fusion, the high-resolution gray image and low-resolution color image are required to be fused in this system. The present invention adopts the fusion method combining the improved pyramid and bilateral filtering, so that the fused image can keep the color information as much as possible under the condition of ensuring rich detail information. For the fusion of the three-dimensional point cloud and the real color, the present invention adopts the method of bicubic interpolation for optimization, which reduces the distortion and loss of color information in the process of summoning, and improves the accuracy of the real color reconstruction.

Meanwhile, the present invention has the following advantageous features and innovations:

(1) The present invention uses a combination of a high-resolution gray binocular camera and a low-resolution color camera to achieve high-precision true-color point cloud reconstruction;

(2) In point cloud registration, the traditional point cloud registration is improved by point to surface and to point error fitting method, which ensures the stitching accuracy while registering quickly;

(3) A fusion method of gray image and color image is constructed. Based on the traditional Laplace pyramid decomposition method, a bilateral filter is introduced to preserve the rich detail information and color information of the fused image as much as possible.

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The above and other objectives, features and advantages of the present invention will be more apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a flow diagram of a method for high-precision true color three dimensional reconstruction of a mechanical component in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a diagram of fixation of three cameras and an optical transmitter;

FIG. 3 is a diagram of fusing the left high-resolution image LI_(j) with the low-resolution color image;

FIG. 4 is a diagram of interpolating the pixel value of interpolation point by using the bilinear interpolation method;

FIG. 5 is an illustration of a left high-resolution grayscale image of a dumbbell shaped standard component;

FIG. 6 is an illustration of the fused overall color point cloud of a dumbbell shaped standard component under three poses;

FIG. 7 is an illustration of a detail part of a direct fused overall color point cloud of a dumbbell shaped standard component under three poses;

FIG. 8 is an illustration of a detail part of a fused overall color point cloud of a dumbbell shaped standard component under three poses in accordance with the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that the similar modules are designated by similar reference numerals although they are illustrated in different drawings. Also, in the following description, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may obscure the subject matter of the present invention.

In one embodiment of the present invention, As shown in FIG. 1 , a method for high-precision true color three dimensional reconstruction of a mechanical component in accordance with the present invention comprises:

Step S1: image acquisition

Step S1.1: fixing cameras and optical transmitter

As shown in FIG. 2 , fixing a left high-resolution grayscale camera 1 and a right high-resolution grayscale camera 2 on a support device 5, where the right high-resolution grayscale camera 2 and the left high-resolution grayscale camera 1 are at the same height and spaced at a certain distance;

fixing an optical transmitter 3 between the left high-resolution grayscale camera 1 and right high-resolution grayscale camera 2 and a low-resolution color camera 4 above the optical transmitter.

Step S1.2: adjusting cameras and optical transmitter and completing a camera calibration

Adjusting the left high-resolution grayscale camera 1, the right high-resolution grayscale camera 2, the optical transmitter 3 and the low-resolution color camera 4, so that a measured high-precision mechanical component can be completely and clearly captured by the cameras 1, 2, 4 and the optical transmitter 3 can completely and clearly project non-coded light and coded light on the surface of the measured high-precision mechanical component.

The measurement user adjusts a calibration plate and uses Zhang's calibration method to complete a camera calibration.

Step S1.3: taking images of measured high-precision mechanical component

Placing the measured high-precision mechanical component at a suitable position in the view of the cameras 1, 2, 4, then rotating the measured high-precision mechanical component in a fixed direction and acquiring images of J poses:

for the measured high-precision mechanical component of the j^(th) pose, firstly the optical transmitter projects a non-coded light on the surface of the measured high-precision mechanical component, the low-resolution color camera takes an image which is denoted by low-resolution color image CI_(j), the left high-resolution grayscale camera takes an image which is denoted by left high-resolution grayscale image LI_(j), then the optical transmitter projects N frames of encoded light on the surface of the measured high-precision mechanical component, the left high-resolution grayscale camera and right high-resolution grayscale camera respectively take a grayscale image which are respectively denoted by LI _(jn) and RI _(jn), n=1, 2, . . . , N.

Step S2: image processing

Step S2.1: performing a three-dimensional point cloud reconstruction for the measured high-precision mechanical component of each pose

Reconstructing a three-dimensional point cloud of the measured high-precision mechanical component of each pose: based on the principle of binocular camera, reconstructing a three-dimensional point cloud P_(j) of the j^(th) pose by using the grayscale images LI _(j1), LI _(j2), . . . , LI _(jN) and RI _(j1), RI _(j2), . . . , RI _(jN) of the j^(th) pose, where j=1, 2, . . . , J. this step belongs to the prior art, and no more detail are described here.

Step S2.2: performing registrations on the 3D point clouds of poses to calculate a rigid body transformation matrix W_(j)

Performing registrations on 3D point clouds to calculate a rigid body transformation matrix W_(j) by using the three-dimensional point cloud P_(j) as a target point cloud and the three-dimensional point cloud P_(j+1) of the (j+1)^(th) pose as a source point cloud, where j=1, 2, . . . , J−1.

Step S2.2.1: respectively performing voxel down sampling on the target point cloud P_(j) and the source point cloud P_(j+1), where the voxel down sampled target point cloud is denoted by the target point cloud P_(j_down) and the voxel down sampled source point cloud is denoted by the source point cloud P_(j+1_down), and respectively performing 3D-SIFT key point extraction on the target point cloud P_(j_down) and the target point cloud P_(j+1_down), where the extracted target point cloud is denoted by a target point cloud P_(j_key), the extracted source point cloud is denoted by a source point cloud P_(j+1_key). Voxel down sampling is that voxels of N_(down) % are retained at given number N_(down) which is greater than 0 and less than 100. 3D-SIFT key point extraction can reduce the sample space, retain the points of rich features and reduce the amount of calculation.

Step S2.2.2: initializing iteration number k=1, setting a maximum iteration number K_(c_reg), setting an iteration number K_(pp) which is used for shifting a point-to-plane error function to a point-to-point error function, initializing transformed source point cloud P_(j+1_key_1) to the source point cloud P_(j+1_key).

Step S2.2.3: for the k^(th) iteration, to each point of the source point cloud P_(j+1_key_k), finding the nearest point in the target point cloud P_(j_key) as its corresponding point by using KD tree to obtain a corresponding point-to-point set C_(j+_key_k), then removing the point and its nearest point whose distance is great than threshold Thres to obtain a optimized point-to-point set C_(j_key_k)′.

Step S2.2.4: homogenizing the i^(th) point p_(j+1_key_ki) of the source point cloud P_(j+1_key_k) in point-to-point set C_(j_key_k)′ to obtain its corresponding vector p _(j+1_key_ki)=(x_(j+1_key_ki),y_(j+1_key_ki),z_(j+1_key_ki),1)^(T), finding corresponding point p_(j_key_i) of the target point cloud P_(j_key) in point-to-point set C_(j_key_k)′ and homogenizing it to obtain its corresponding vector p _(j_key_i)=(x_(j_key_i),y_(j_key_i),z_(j_key_i),1)^(T), where i=1, 2, . . . , N_(cj_key_k), N_(cj_key_k) is the number of point-to-point set C_(j_key_k)′;

if iteration number k is less than K_(pp), then constructing a point-to-plane error function F_(jk) by using the distance from the point p_(j+1_key_ki) to the tangent plane of point p_(j_key_i) of target point cloud P_(j_key), where the error function F_(jk) is:

$F_{jk} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N_{{cj}\;\_\;{key}\;\_\; k}}\left( {\left( {{W_{jk} \cdot {\overset{\_}{p}}_{{({j + 1})}\_\;{key}\;\_\;{ki}}} - {\overset{\_}{p}}_{j\;\_\;{key}\;\_\; i}} \right) \cdot n_{j\;\_\;{key}\;\_\; i}} \right)^{2}}$

where n_(j_key_i) is the normal vector corresponding to point p_(j_key_i), W_(jk) is the transformation matrix of the k^(th) iteration;

if iteration number k is nor less than K_(pp), then constructing a point-to-point error function F_(jk) according to the sum of the squares of the distances between the corresponding points, where the error function F_(jk) is:

$F_{jk} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N_{{cj}\;\_\;{key}\;\_\; k}}{{{{W_{jk} \cdot {\overset{\_}{p}}_{{({j + 1})}\_\;{key}\;\_\;{ki}}} - {\overset{\_}{p}}_{j\;\_\;{key}\;\_\; i}}}^{2}.}}$

Step S2.2.5: calculating the transformation matrix W_(jk) that makes the value of error function F_(jk) minimum, and then applying a transformation to the source point cloud P_(j+1_key_k) by using error function F_(jk) to obtain a source point cloud P_(j+1_key_(k+1)) and recording the value of error function F_(jk) at the k^(th) iteration.

Step S2.2.6: judging whether the variation |F_(jk)−F_(j(k−1))| of the value of error function of two consecutive iterations is less than a threshold e or iteration number k reaches the maximum iteration number K_(c_reg);

if yes, then recording the point-to-point set C_(j_key_k′)′ at the k′^(th) iteration, where k′ is the iteration number when the judgment condition is met, and calculating the optimal rigid body transformation matrix W_(j)=W_(jk),W_(j(k−1)) . . . W_(j1), where the optimal rigid body transformation matrix W_(j) is a matrix of 4×4, its formation is:

$W_{j} = \begin{bmatrix} R_{{cloud}\;\_\; j} & T_{{cloud}\;\_\; j} \\ \overset{\rightarrow}{0} & 1 \end{bmatrix}$

where R_(cloud_j) is a rotation matrix of 3×3 which registers the source point cloud P_(j+1_key) to the target point cloud P_(j_key), T_(cloud_j) is a translation vector of 1×3, {right arrow over (0)} is a row vector of 3×1;

if no, k=k+1, and returning step S2.2.3.

Step S2.3: fusing the left high-resolution image LI_(j) with the low-resolution color image CI_(j) of the j^(th) pose, j=1, 2, . . . , m

Step S2.3.1: calculating a projection matrix H_(j) for registering the low-resolution color image CI_(j) to the left high-resolution image LI_(j):

Step S2.3.1.1: respectively extracting SURF feature points from the low-resolution color image CI_(j) and the left high-resolution image LI_(j), and taking the extracted SURF feature points as key points. In one embodiment, the extraction of SURF feature points is:

construct different scale spaces based on box filter to form O-group S-layer image pyramid. Among them, the size of the box filter template used between groups gradually increases, the size of the filter template in different layers of the same group is the same, but the scale space factor increases layer by layer. Thus, an image composed of the determinant approximation of the Hessian matrix of each pixel in the original image is obtained in all scale spaces;

the Hessian matrix discriminant value of each pixel processed by the Hessian matrix, 8 points in its neighborhood 3×3, and 3×3×2 points in the upper and lower adjacent layers of the same group are composed of 26 pixels for size comparison. If the value is less than or greater than the value of all the other 26 points, it is preliminarily recognized as a characteristic point. The key points with weak energy and the key points with wrong location are filtered out, and the final stable feature points are filtered out;

for the extracted feature points, count the Harr wavelet features in the circular neighborhood. Take 0.2 rad step, count the sum of horizontal and vertical Harr wavelet features of all points in the π/3 sector, and take the direction of the maximum value as the main direction of the feature point;

create a square box along the main direction on the feature points and decompose it into 4×4 squares. There are 5×5 pixels in each square. The horizontal direction relative to the main direction is marked as x and the vertical direction is marked as y. For these 25 pixels, the sum Σdx of the horizontal Harr wavelet eigenvalues relative to the main direction, the sum Σdy of the vertical Harr wavelet eigenvalues, the sum Σ|dx| of the absolute values of the horizontal Harr wavelet eigenvalues, and the sum Σ|dy| of the absolute values of the vertical Harr wavelet eigenvalues are calculated respectively, a total of four eigenvalues. For a feature point, record a total of 4×4×4=64 dimensional feature vectors.

Step S2.3.1.2: to each key point of the low-resolution color image CI_(j), finding the closest key point and the next closest key point in the left high-resolution image LI_(j) according to Euclidean distance, if the ratio of the distance of the closest key point to the distance of the next closet key point is less than a set threshold θ, then determining the closest key point in the left high-resolution image LI_(j) as the matching point, thus a matching point pair set C_(cl_j) is obtained.

Step S2.3.1.3: setting a maximum iteration number K_(p_reg) and an error threshold φ, initializing iteration number k=1, then optimizing the matching point pair set C_(cl_j) through random sampling consistency (RANSAC) algorithm to obtain the projection matrix H_(j).

Step S2.3.1.3.1: for the k^(th) iteration in the process of optimizing the matching point pair set C_(cl_j), randomly selecting four point pairs, which are denoted respectively by {q_(cj_1), q_(lj_1)}, {q_(cj_2), q_(lj_2)}, {q_(cj_3), q_(lj_3)} and {q_(cj_4), q_(lj_4)}, and homogenizing them to obtain four point pairs {q _(cj_1), q _(lj_1)}, {q _(cj_2), q _(lj_2)}, {q _(cj_3), q _(lj_3)} and {q _(cj_4), q _(lj_4)}, then calculating a projection matrix H_(jk) between the four point pairs, which satisfies the following relationship: q _(lj_i) =H _(jk) ·q _(cj_i) , i=1,2, . . . ,4

Step S2.3.1.3.2: homogenizing a point pair {q_(cj_i), q_(lj_i)} other than the selected four point pairs from the matching point pair set C_(cl_j) to obtain point pair {q _(cj_i), q _(lj_i)}, then calculating a mapping error ε_(jk_i)=∥q _(lj_i),H_(jk) q _(cj_i)∥ according to the projection matrix H_(jk), where i=5, 5, . . . , N_(cj), N_(cj) is the number of point pairs of the matching point pair set C_(cl_j), and selecting the point pair which mapping error ε_(jk_i)<φ to form a interior point set S_(jk).

Step S2.3.1.3.3: if the last iteration has been performed, namely k=K_(p_reg) then comparing S_(j1), S_(j2), . . . , S_(jK) _(p_reg) to select the projection matrix H_(jk) as the projection matrix H_(j) when the interior point set S_(jk) is the largest, or k=k+1 and returning step S2.3.1.3.1.

Step S2.3.2: registering the low-resolution color image CI_(j) to the left high-resolution image LI_(j) according to the projection matrix H_(j) to obtain a high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r).

Step S2.3.2.1: creating a empty high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) which has the same size with the left high-resolution image LI_(j), then performing coordinate transformation on the pixels of the low-resolution color image CI_(j) to obtain a color image CI_(j). In one embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3 , the view range of the low-resolution color image CI_(j) is Ω_(C), after coordinate transformation, its view range is not changed and still is Ω_(C), namely the view range of the color image CI_(j) is Ω_(C). The pixel points after coordinate transformation have decimal coordinates, namely the decimal coordinates of the pixel points are not aligned. The view range of the left high-resolution image LI_(j) is Ω_(L).

Step S2.3.2.2: determining the interpolation range: the pixel points of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) which are located on color image CI_(j) and other than the matching points in matching point pair set C_(cl_j) are the points which are needed to be interpolated, namely interpolation points. In one embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3 , the overlapped view range is Ω_(CL). The pixel points within Ω_(CL) and not in matching point pair set C_(cl_j) are the points which are needed to be interpolated.

Step S2.3.2.3: using the bilinear interpolation method to interpolate the pixel values of all interpolation points: to the i^(th) interpolation point q_(cj_r_i)(x_(cj_r_i), y_(cj_r_i)), performing a inverse transformation according to the projection matrix H_(j) to obtain a pixel point ρ_(cj_i)(x_(cj_ρ_i), y_(cj_ρ_i)) located on the low-resolution color image CI_(j), and finding four nearest pixel points which are denoted respectively by p_(cj_ρ_i11)(x_(cj_ρ_i1), y_(cj_ρ_i1)), p_(cj_ρ_i12)(x_(cj_ρ_i1), y_(cj_ρ_i2)), p_(cj_ρ_i21)(x_(cj_ρ_i2), y_(cj_ρ_i1)) and p_(cj_ρ_i22)(x_(cj_ρ_i2), y_(cj_ρ_i2)):

firstly interpolating in the x direction to obtain the following pixel values:

${C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}} \right)}} = {{\frac{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i}}{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}} \right)}} + {\frac{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}} \right)}}}$ ${C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2}} \right)}} = {{\frac{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i}}{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2}} \right)}} + {\frac{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2}} \right)}}}$

then interpolating in the y direction to obtain the following pixel value:

${C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i}} \right)}} = {{Round}\mspace{14mu}\left( {{\frac{y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i}}{y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\ \left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}} \right)}} + {\frac{y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i} - y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}{y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2}} \right)}}} \right)}$

letting the pixel value CI_(j_r)(x_(cj_r_i), y_(cj_r_i)) of the interpolation point q_(cj_r_i)(x_(cj_r_i), y_(cj_r_i)) be CI_(j)(x_(cj_ρ_i), y_(cj_ρ_i)).

In one embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4 , the circles are the interpolation points of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r). Taking the interpolation points in the lower right corner as an example, performing a inverse transformation according to the projection matrix H_(j) to obtain a location on the low-resolution color image CI_(j). On the low-resolution color image CI_(j), the dots are the pixel points of the low-resolution color image CI_(j). In the embodiment, taking a interpolation point ρ_(cj_i)(x_(cj_ρ_i), y_(cj_ρ_i)) (the circle pointed to by an arrow on the low-resolution color image CI_(j)) in the lower right corner as an example, the nearest four pixel points are p_(cj_ρ_i11)(x_(cj_ρ_i1), y_(cj_ρ_i1)), p_(cj_ρ_i12)(x_(cj_ρ_i1), y_(cj_ρ_i2)), p_(cj_ρ_i21)(x_(cj_ρ_i2), y_(cj_ρ_i1)) and p_(cj_ρ_i22)(x_(cj_ρ_i2), y_(cj_ρ_i2)), then interpolates in the x direction, namely, respectively interpolates the pixel value CI_(j)(x_(cj_ρ_i), y_(cj_ρ_i1)) of point ρ_(cj_i1)(x_(cj_ρ_i1), y_(cj_ρ_i1)) and the pixel value CI_(j)(x_(cj_ρ_i), y_(cj_ρ_i2)) of point ρ_(cj_i2)(x_(cj_ρ_i), y_(cj_ρ_i2)) by respectively using corresponding nearest pixel points in the x direction, finally interpolates in the x direction to obtain the pixel value of interpolation point ρ_(cj_i)(x_(cj_ρ_i), y_(cj_ρ_i)), i.e. the pixel value of interpolation point q_(cj_r_i)(x_(cj_r_i), y_(cj_r_i)).

Step S2.3.2.4: to the pixel points of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) which are located on color image CI_(j) and are the matching points in matching point pair set C_(cl_j), directly using the pixel values of their corresponding matching point in the low-resolution color image CI_(j) to assign; and to the pixel points of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) which are not located on color image CI_(j), directly using preset RGB value to assign, thus the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) is obtained. In the embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4 , the triangle points are the pixel points of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r), which are located on color image CI_(j) and are the matching points in matching point pair set C_(cl_j), and can be directly assigned by the pixel values of the corresponding points on the low-resolution color image CI_(j). After the interpolating and assigning, to the pixel points of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) which are not located on color image CI_(j) namely not the pixel points within the overlapped view range Ω_(CL), setting their RGB value to 0. As shown in FIG. 4 , the black area on the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) are set to 0.

Step S2.3.3: fusing the left high-resolution image LI_(j) with the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r).

Step S2.3.3.1: in one embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3 , performing N_(l)-layer Laplacian pyramid decomposition on the left high-resolution image LI_(j) to obtain N_(l) layers of image LI_(j_w), performing N_(l)-layer Laplacian pyramid decomposition on each channel of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) to obtain N_(l) layers of image CI_(j_rw) on R channel, N_(l) layers of image CI_(j_gw) on G channel and N_(l) layers of image CI_(j_bw) on B channel, where w=1, 2, . . . , N_(l) and represents the serial number of image.

Step S2.3.3.2: respectively performing bilateral filter on the top-layer images CI_(j_rN) _(l) , CI_(j_gN) _(l) , CI_(j_bN) _(l) and LI_(j_N) _(l) to obtain top-layer images CI_(j_rN) _(l) _(_b), CI_(j_gN) _(l) _(_b); CI_(j_bN) _(l) _(_b) and LI_(j_N) _(l) _(_b);

Step S2.3.3.3: to the top-layer images of three channels of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r), calculating the difference before and after bilateral filtering to obtain detail layer images CI_(j_rN) _(l) ′=CI_(j_rN) _(l) −CI_(j_rN) _(l_b) , CI_(j_gN) _(l) ′=CI_(j_gN) _(l) −CI_(j_gN) _(l) _(_b) and CI_(j_bN) _(l) ′=CI_(j_bN) _(l) −CI_(j_bN) _(l) _(_b), which have rich details of image.

Step S2.3.3.4: performing Gaussian filter on the top-layer image of the left high-resolution image LI_(j) to obtain a overall smooth image LI_(j_N) _(l) _(_g), then calculating the difference between the top-layer image LI_(j_N) _(l) _(_b) and the overall smooth image LI_(j_N) _(l) _(_g) to obtain a layer image LI_(j_N) _(l) ′=LI_(j_N) _(l) _(_b)−LI_(j_N) _(l) _(_g) which has rich edge information.

Step S2.3.3.5: calculating top-layer fusion images, where the top-layer fusion image of R channel is: Fu_(j_N) _(l) _(_r)=CI_(j_rN) _(l) +αCI_(j_rN) _(l) ′+βLI_(j_N) _(l) ′, the top-layer fusion image of G channel is: Fu_(j_N) _(l) _(_g)=CI_(j_gN) _(l) +αCI_(j_gN) _(l) ′+βLI_(j_N) _(l) ′, the top-layer fusion image of B channel is: Fu_(j_N) _(l) _(_r)=CI_(j_rN) _(l) +αCI_(j_rN) _(l) ′+βLI_(j_N) _(l) ′;

Step S2.3.3.6: in one embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3 , to the layer fusion images other than the top-layer fusion images, for the reason of retaining the rich color information, assigning the layer fusion images of R channel according to equation Fu_(j_w_r)=CI_(j_rw), the layer fusion images of G channel according to equation Fu_(j_w_g)=CI_(j_gw) and the layer fusion images of B channel according to equation Fu_(j_w_b)=CI_(j_bw), where w=1, 2, . . . , N_(l)−1;

Step S2.3.3.7: based on all layer fusion images of each color channel, performing N_(l)-layer Laplacian pyramid composition to obtain fusion images of each color channel, thus the color fusion image of the j^(th) pose is obtained and denoted by Fu_(j).

Step S2.4: reconstructing a color point cloud:

Step S2.4.1: performing color reconstruction on point cloud of each pose to obtain color point clouds {tilde over (P)}₁, {tilde over (P)}₂, . . . , {tilde over (P)}_(m):

Step S2.4.1.1: to each point p_(ji)(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)) of the three-dimensional point cloud P_(j) of the measured high-precision mechanical component of the j^(th) pose, performing a coordinate system conversion from three-dimensional point to pixel point:

${Z_{c}\begin{bmatrix} a_{ji} \\ b_{ji} \\ 1 \end{bmatrix}} = {{\begin{bmatrix} f_{x} & 0 & u_{0} & 0 \\ 0 & f_{y} & v_{0} & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix} R_{c} & T_{c} \\ \overset{\rightarrow}{0} & 1 \end{bmatrix}}\begin{bmatrix} x_{ji} \\ y_{ji} \\ z_{ji} \\ 1 \end{bmatrix}}$

where z_(c) is a scale factor, f_(x) and f_(y) are respectively the focal lengths of camera in the x and y direction, u₀ and v₀ are respectively the coordinates of camera's main point on pixel plane, R_(c) and T_(c) are respectively the rotation matrix and the translation vector in camera calibration parameters, (a_(ji),b_(ji)) are the coordinates of the pixel point q_(ij) corresponding to the point p_(ji) (x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)) of the three-dimensional point cloud P_(j), i is the serial number of the point.

Step S2.4.1.2: obtaining pixel value R(a_(ji),b_(ji)) of R channel, pixel value G(a_(ji),b_(ji)) of G channel and pixel value B(a_(ji),b_(ji)) of B channel of pixel point at coordinates (a_(ji),b_(ji)) on the color fusion image Fu_(j), then assigning pixel values to the point p_(ij)(x_(ij), y_(ji), z_(ji)) of the three-dimensional point cloud P_(j) according to the following equations: R(x_(ji),y_(ji),z_(ji))=R(a_(ji),b_(ij)), G(x_(ji),y_(ji),z_(ji))=G(a_(ji),b_(ji)) and B(x_(ji),y_(ji),z_(ij))=B(a_(ji),b_(ji)) to obtain color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j), j=1, 2, . . . , m, where R(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)), G(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)) and B(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)) are respectively the point values of R, G and B channel of point p_(ji)(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)) of color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j).

Step S2.4.2: registering the color point clouds of all poses:

based on the series of rigid body transformation matrices W₁, W₂, . . . , W_(m−1) which are obtained according to step 2.2, performing registration by respectively converting the color point clouds {tilde over (P)}₂, {tilde over (P)}₃, {tilde over (P)}_(m) to the coordinate system of the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}₁, where the color point clouds after conversion are respectively denoted by {tilde over (P)}₂, {tilde over (P)}₃*, . . . , {tilde over (P)}_(m)*, there have: {tilde over (P)} ₂ *=W ₁ {tilde over (P)} ₂ {tilde over (P)} ₃ *=W ₁ W ₂ {tilde over (P)} ₃ . . . {tilde over (P)} _(m) *=W ₁ W ₂ . . . W _(m−1) {tilde over (P)} _(m)

Step S2.4.3: fusing the overlapping part of the color point clouds:

setting {tilde over (G)}₁*={tilde over (P)}₁*={tilde over (P)}₁, then fusing the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}₂* with the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}₁* to obtain a color point cloud {tilde over (G)}₂* to j=2, 3, . . . m−1, successfully fusing the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)* with the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j)* to obtain a color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j+1)* and finally obtaining a fused overall color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(m)* that the high-precision true color three dimensional reconstruction is complete;

where the fusion of the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)* and the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j)* is:

to the matching point pair in the point-to-point set C_(j_key_k′)′, directly taking it as a correspondence point pair and putting it into a correspondence point pair set Co_(j);

to a non-matching point {tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*({tilde over (x)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (y)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (z)}_(j+1_i)*) of the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)*, finding the nearest point in the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)* by using KD tree, and then calculating the average value σ of all distances between non-matching points and their respective nearest points; simultaneously, to each non-matching point of the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}* finding the nearest point in the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)* by using KD tree, if the distance of the nearest point is less than the average value σ, then the non-matching point of the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j)* and its nearest point in the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)* are taken as a correspondence point pair and put into the correspondence point pair set Co_(j);

weighting geometric coordinates of each correspondence point pair {{tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*({tilde over (x)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (y)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (z)}_(j+1_i)*), {tilde over (g)}_(j_i)*({tilde over (x)}_(j_i)*, {tilde over (y)}_(j_i)*, {tilde over (z)}_(j_i)*)} in the correspondence point pair set Co_(j) with the weights α_(i) and β_(i) to obtain the coordinates of a fused point {tilde over (g)}_(j+1_i)*:

(α_(i){tilde over (x)}_(j+1_i)*+β_(i){tilde over (x)}_(j_i)*,α_(i){tilde over (y)}_(j+1_i)*+β_(i){tilde over (y)}_(j_i)*,α_(i){tilde over (z)}_(j+1_i)*+β_(i){tilde over (z)}_(j_i)*)

respectively weighting the point values of R, G and B channel of each correspondence point pair {{tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*({tilde over (x)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (y)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (z)}_(j+1_i)*), {tilde over (g)}_(j_i)*({tilde over (x)}_(j_i)*, {tilde over (y)}_(j_i)*, {tilde over (z)}_(j_i)*)} in the correspondence point pair set Co_(j) with the weights (α_(ri),β_(ri)), (α_(gi),β_(gi)) and (α_(bi),β_(bi)) to obtain the point values R({tilde over (g)}_(j+1_i)*), G({tilde over (g)}_(j+1_i)*) and B({tilde over (g)}_(j+1_i)*) of R, G and B channel of the point {tilde over (g)}_(j+1_i)* of the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j+1)*: R({tilde over (g)} _(j+1_i)*)=α_(ri) R({tilde over (p)} _(j+1_i)*)+β_(ri) R({tilde over (g)} _(j_i)*) G({tilde over (g)} _(j+1_i)*)=α_(gi) G({tilde over (p)} _(j+1_i)*)+β_(gi) G({tilde over (g)} _(j_i)*) B({tilde over (g)} _(j+1_i)*)=α_(bi) B({tilde over (p)} _(j+1_i)*)+β_(bi) B({tilde over (g)} _(j_i)*)

where, i=1, 2, . . . , N_(coj), N_(coj) is the number of the correspondence point pairs, R({tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*), G({tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*) and ({tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*) are respectively the point values of R, G and B channel of the point {tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*, R({tilde over (g)}_(j_i)*), G({tilde over (g)}_(j_i)*) and B({tilde over (g)}_(j_i)*) are respectively the point values of R, G and B channel of the point {tilde over (g)}_(j_i)* of the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j+1)*.

Example

In this example, a dumbbell shaped standard component is reconstructed with high-precision color 3D point cloud. Turn on the left and right high-resolution gray cameras, the optical transmitter and the low-resolution color camera, and adjust the angles and parameters of the cameras so that the dumbbell shaped standard component can be completely and clearly captured by the cameras, then adjust the angles and parameters of the optical transmitter so that the optical transmitter can completely and clearly project non-coded light and coded light on the surface of the dumbbell shaped standard component.

The measurement user places a checkerboard calibration plate at a suitable position in the view of the cameras, rotates the checkerboard calibration plate in the same plane at different angles, takes a group of high-resolution gray images of the checkerboard calibration plate and transmits them to a computer. The compute calculates the parameters of the left and right high-resolution gray cameras through Zhang's calibration method. The measurement user places the dumbbell shaped standard component at a suitable position in the view of the cameras and records it as pose 1. When the optical transmitter projects the non-coded light, the measurement user takes a group of images, including the low-resolution color image and the left high-resolution grayscale image which shown in FIG. 5 . When the optical transmitter projects the coded light, a group of images of the left and right high-resolution gray cameras are acquired and transmitted to the computer. The measurement user rotates the dumbbell shaped standard component at a certain angle and records it as pose 2. a group of images are acquired and transmitted to the computer. The tester rotates the dumbbell shaped standard part by a certain angle along the same direction and records it as pose 3, another of images are acquired and transmitted to the computer. Thus the images of J poses have been acquired, the image acquisition is complete, where J=3. Then the computer uses an image processing program to complete the reconstruction of color point clouds, and fuses the color point clouds under three poses together, and the fused overall color point cloud is shown in FIG. 6 .

FIG. 7 shows the details of the stitching of three pose point clouds. It can be seen that the direct stitching of each pose leads to uneven resolution of the overall point cloud, the density of the overlapping area is higher than that of other parts, and the points with the same name are given different color channel values. The spliced point clouds are fused to obtain the overall point cloud shown in FIG. 8 . Compared with FIG. 7 , the details (shown in white oval circle) in FIG. 8 do not appear layered, and the values of points with the same name are processed uniformly, and the redundant point cloud information is deleted. The point cloud reconstruction obtained by the invention realizes the restoration of high precision and real color.

While illustrative embodiments of the invention have been described above, it is, of course, understand that various modifications will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art. Such modifications are within the spirit and scope of the invention, which is limited and defined only by the appended claims. 

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A method for high-precision true color three dimensional reconstruction of a mechanical component, comprising: (1). image acquisition 1.1). fixing a left high-resolution grayscale camera and a right high-resolution grayscale camera on a support device, where the right high-resolution grayscale camera and the left high-resolution grayscale camera are at the same height and spaced at a certain distance; fixing an optical transmitter between the left high-resolution grayscale camera and right high-resolution grayscale camera and a low-resolution color camera above the optical transmitter; 1.2). adjusting the left high-resolution grayscale camera, the right high-resolution grayscale camera, the optical transmitter and the low-resolution color camera, so that a measured high-precision mechanical component can be completely and clearly captured by the cameras and the optical transmitter can completely and clearly project non-coded light and coded light on the surface of the measured high-precision mechanical component; adjusting a calibration plate and using Zhang's calibration method to complete a camera calibration; 1.3). placing the measured high-precision mechanical component at a suitable position in the view of the cameras, then rotating the measured high-precision mechanical component in a fixed direction and acquiring images of J poses: for the measured high-precision mechanical component of the j^(th) pose, firstly the optical transmitter projects a non-coded light on the surface of the measured high-precision mechanical component, the low-resolution color camera takes image which is denoted by low-resolution color image CI_(j), the left high-resolution grayscale camera takes an image which is denoted by left high-resolution grayscale image LI_(j), then the optical transmitter projects N frames of encoded light on the surface of the measured high-precision mechanical component, the left high-resolution grayscale camera and right high-resolution grayscale camera respectively take a grayscale image which are respectively denoted by LI _(jn) and RI _(jn), n=1, 2, . . . , N; (2). image processing 2.1). reconstructing a three-dimensional point cloud of the measured high-precision mechanical component of each pose: based on the principle of binocular camera, reconstructing a three-dimensional point cloud P_(j) of the j^(th) pose by using the grayscale images LI _(j1), LI _(j2), . . . , LI _(jN) and RI _(j1), RI _(j2), . . . , RI _(jN) of the j^(th) pose, where j=1, 2, . . . , J; 2.2). performing registrations on 3D point clouds to calculate a rigid body transformation matrix W_(j) by using the three-dimensional point cloud P_(j) as a target point cloud and the three-dimensional point cloud P_(j+1) of the (j+1)^(th) pose as a source point cloud, where j=1, 2, . . . , J−1: 2.2.1). respectively performing voxel down sampling on the target point cloud P_(j) and the source point cloud P_(j+1), where the voxel down sampled target point cloud is denoted by the target point cloud P_(j_down) and the voxel down sampled source point cloud is denoted by the source point cloud P_(j+1_down), and respectively performing 3D-SIFT key point extraction on the target point cloud P_(j_down) and the target point cloud P_(j+1_down), where the extracted target point cloud is denoted by a target point cloud P_(j_key), the extracted source point cloud is denoted by a source point cloud P_(j+1_key); 2.2.2). initializing iteration number k=1, setting a maximum iteration number K_(c_reg), setting an iteration number K_(pp) which is used for shifting a point-to-plane error function to a point-to-point error function, initializing transformed source point cloud P_(j+1_key_1) to the source point cloud P_(j+1_key); 2.2.3). for the k^(th) iteration, to each point of the source point cloud P_(j+1_key_k), finding the nearest point in the target point cloud P_(j_key) as its corresponding point by using KD tree to obtain a corresponding point-to-point set C^(j+1_key_k), then removing the point and its nearest point whose distance is great than threshold Thres to obtain a optimized point-to-point set C_(j_key_k)′; 2.2.4). homogenizing the i^(th) point p_(j+1_key_ki) of the source point cloud P_(j+1_key_k) in point-to-point set C_(j_key_k)′ to obtain its corresponding vector p _(j+1_key_ki)=(x_(j+1_key_ki),y_(j+1_key_ki),z_(j+1_key_ki),1)^(T), finding corresponding point p_(j_key_i) of the target point cloud P_(j_key) in point-to-point set C_(j_key_k)′ and homogenizing it to obtain its corresponding vector p _(j_key_i)=(x_(j_key_i),y_(j_key_i),z_(j_key_i),1)^(T), where i=1, 2, . . . , N_(cj_key_k), N_(cj_key_k) is the number of point-to-point set C_(j_key_k)′; if iteration number k is less than K_(pp), then constructing a point-to-plane error function F_(jk) by using the distance from the point p_(j+1_key_ki) to the tangent plane of point p_(j_key_i) of target point cloud P_(j_key), where the error function F_(jk) is: $F_{jk} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N_{{cj}\;\_\;{key}\;\_\; k}}\left( {\left( {{W_{jk} \cdot {\overset{\_}{p}}_{{({j + 1})}\_\;{key}\;\_\;{ki}}} - {\overset{\_}{p}}_{j\;\_\;{key}\;\_\; i}} \right) \cdot n_{j\;\_\;{key}\;\_\; i}} \right)^{2}}$ where n_(j_key_i) is the normal vector corresponding to point p_(j_key_i), W_(jk) is the transformation matrix of the k^(th) iteration; if iteration number k is nor less than K_(pp), then constructing a point-to-point error function F_(jk) according to the sum of the squares of the distances between the corresponding points, where the error function F_(jk) is: ${F_{jk} = {\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{N_{{cj}\;\_\;{key}\;\_\; k}}{{{W_{jk} \cdot {\overset{\_}{p}}_{{({j + 1})}\_\;{key}\;\_\;{ki}}} - {\overset{\_}{p}}_{j\;\_\;{key}\;\_\; i}}}^{2}}};$ 2.2.5). calculating the transformation matrix W_(jk) that makes the value of error function F_(jk) minimum, and then applying a transformation to the source point cloud P_(j+1_key_k) by using error function F_(jk) to obtain a source point cloud P_(j+1_key_(k+1)) and recording the value of error function F_(jk) at the k^(th) iteration; 2.2.6). judging whether the variation |F_(jk)−F_(j(k−1))| of the value of error function of two consecutive iterations is less than a threshold e or iteration number k reaches the maximum iteration number K_(c_reg); if yes, then recording the point-to-point set C_(j_key_k′)′ at the k′^(th) iteration, where k′ is the iteration number when the judgment condition is met, and calculating the optimal rigid body transformation matrix W_(j)=W_(jk), W_(j(k′−1)) . . . W_(j1), where the optimal rigid body transformation matrix W_(j) is a matrix of 4×4, its formation is: $W_{j} = \begin{bmatrix} R_{{cloud}\;\_\; j} & T_{{cloud}\;\_\; j} \\ \overset{\rightarrow}{0} & 1 \end{bmatrix}$ where R_(cloud_j) is a rotation matrix of 3×3 which registers the source point cloud P_(j+1_key) to the target point cloud P_(j_key), T_(cloud_j) is a translation vector of 1×3, {right arrow over (0)} is a row vector of 3×1; if no, k=k+1, and returning step 2.2.3); 2.3). fusing the left high-resolution image LI_(j) with the low-resolution color image CI_(j) of the j^(th) pose, j=1, 2, . . . , m 2.3.1). calculating a projection matrix H_(j) for registering the low-resolution color image CI_(j) to the left high-resolution image LI_(j): 2.3.1.1). respectively extracting SURF feature points from the low-resolution color image CI_(j) and the left high-resolution image LI_(j), and taking the extracted SURF feature points as key points; 2.3.1.2). to each key point of the low-resolution color image CI_(j), finding the closest key point and the next closest key point in the left high-resolution image LI_(j) according to Euclidean distance, if the ratio of the distance of the closest key point to the distance of the next closet key point is less than a set threshold θ, then determining the closest key point in the left high-resolution image LI_(j) as the matching point, thus a matching point pair set C_(cl_j) is obtained; 2.3.1.3). setting a maximum iteration number K_(p_reg) and an error threshold φ, initializing iteration number k=1, then optimizing the matching point pair set C_(cl_j) through random sampling consistency (RANSAC) algorithm to obtain the projection matrix H_(j): 2.3.1.3.1). for the k^(th) iteration in the process of optimizing the matching point pair set C_(cl_j), randomly selecting four point pairs, which are denoted respectively by {q_(cj_1), q_(lj_1)}, {q_(cj_2), q_(lj_2)}, {q_(cj_3), q_(lj_3)} and {q_(cj_4), q_(lj_4)}, and homogenizing them to obtain four point pairs {q _(cj_1), q _(lj_1)}, {q _(cj_2), q _(lj_2)}, {q _(cj_3), q _(lj_3)} and {q _(cj_4), q _(lj_4)}, then calculating a projection matrix H_(jk) between the four point pairs, which satisfies the following relationship: q _(lj_i)=H_(jk)·q _(cj_i), 1, 2, . . . , 4 2.3.1.3.2). homogenizing a point pair {q_(cj_i), q _(lj_i)} other than the selected four point pairs from the matching point pair set C_(cl_j) to obtain point pair {q _(cj_i), q _(lj_i)} then calculating a mapping error ε_(jk_i)=∥q _(lj_i),H_(jk) q _(cj_i)∥ according to the projection matrix H_(jk), where i=5, 6, . . . , N_(cj), N_(cj) is the number of point pairs of the matching point pair set C_(cl_j), and selecting the point pair which mapping error ε_(jk_i)<φ to form a interior point set S_(jk); 2.3.1.3.3). if the last iteration has been performed, namely k=K_(p_reg), then comparing S_(j1), S_(j2), . . . , S_(jK) _(p_reg) to select the projection matrix H_(jk) as the projection matrix H_(j) when the interior point set S_(jk) is the largest, or k=k+1 and returning step 2.3.1.3.1; 2.3.2). registering the low-resolution color image CI_(j) to the left high-resolution image LI_(j) according to the projection matrix H_(j) to obtain a high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r): 2.3.2.1). creating a empty high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) which has the same size with the left high-resolution image LI_(j), then performing coordinate transformation on the pixels of the low-resolution color image CI_(j) to obtain a color image CI_(j); 2.3.2.2). determining the interpolation range: the pixel points of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) which are located on color image CI_(j) and other than the matching points in matching point pair set C_(cl_j) are the points which are needed to be interpolated, namely interpolation points; 2.3.2.3). using the bilinear interpolation method to interpolate the pixel values of all interpolation points: to the i^(th) interpolation point q_(cj_r_i)(x_(cj_r_i), y_(cj_r_i)), performing a inverse transformation according to the projection matrix H_(j) to obtain a pixel point ρ_(cj_i)(x_(cj_ρ_i), y_(cj_ρ_i)) located on the low-resolution color image CI_(j), and finding four nearest pixel points which are denoted respectively by p_(cj_ρ_i11)(x_(cj_ρ_i1), y_(cj_ρ_i1)), p_(cj_ρ_i12)(x_(cj_ρ_i1), y_(cj_ρ_i2)), p_(cj_ρ_i21)(x_(cj_ρ_i2), y_(cj_ρ_i1)) and p_(cj_ρ_i22)(x_(cj_ρ_i2), y_(cj_ρ_i2)); firstly interpolating in the x direction to obtain the following: ${C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}} \right)}} = {{\frac{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i}}{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}} \right)}} + {\frac{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}} \right)}}}$ ${C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2}} \right)}} = {{\frac{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i}}{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2}} \right)}} + {\frac{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}{x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2}} \right)}}}$ then interpolating in the y direction to obtain the following pixel value: ${C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i}} \right)}} = {{Round}\mspace{14mu}\left( {{\frac{y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i}}{y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\ \left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}} \right)}} + {\frac{y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i} - y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}{y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2} - y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 1}}C{I_{j}\left( {x_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i},y_{{cj}\;{\_\rho}\_\; i\; 2}} \right)}}} \right)}$ letting the pixel value CI_(j_r)(x_(cj_r_i), y_(cj_r_i)) of the interpolation point q_(cj_r_i)(x_(cj_r_i), y_(cj_r_i)) be CI_(j)(x_(cj_ρ_i), y_(cj_ρ_i)); 2.3.2.4). to the pixel points of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) which are located on color image CI_(j) and are the matching points in matching point pair set C_(cl_j), directly using the pixel values of their corresponding matching point in the low-resolution color image CI_(j) to assign; and to the pixel points of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) which are not located on color image CI_(j), directly using preset RGB value to assign, thus the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) is obtained; 2.3.3). fusing the left high-resolution image LI_(j) with the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r): 2.3.3.1). performing N_(l)-layer Laplacian pyramid decomposition on the left high-resolution image LI_(j) to obtain N_(l) layers of image LI_(j_w), performing N_(l)-layer Laplacian pyramid decomposition on each channel of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r) to obtain N_(l) layers of image CI_(j_rw) on R channel, N_(l) layers of image CI_(j_gw) on G channel and N_(l) layers of image CI_(j_bw) on B channel, where w=1, 2, . . . , N_(l) and represents the serial number of image; 2.3.3.2). respectively performing bilateral filter on the top-layer images CI_(j_rN) _(l) , CI_(j_gN) _(l) , CI_(j_bN) _(l) and LI_(j_N) _(l) to obtain top-layer images CI_(j_rN) _(l) _(_b), CI_(j_gN) _(l) _(_b); CI_(j_bN) _(l) _(_b) and LI_(j_N) _(l) _(_b); 2.3.3.3). to the top-layer images of three channels of the high-resolution registered color image CI_(j_r), calculating the difference before and after bilateral filtering to obtain detail layer images CI_(j_rN) _(l) ′=CI_(j_rN) _(l) −CI_(j_rN) _(l_b) , CI_(j_gN) _(l) ′=CI_(j_gN) _(l) −CI_(j_gN) _(l) _(_b) and CI_(j_bN) _(l) ′=CI_(j_bN) _(l) −CI_(j_bN) _(l) _(_b), which have rich details of image; 2.3.3.4). performing Gaussian filter on the top-layer image of the left high-resolution image LI_(j) to obtain a overall smooth image LI_(j_N) _(l) _(_g), then calculating the difference between the top-layer image LI_(j_N) _(l) _(_b) and the overall smooth image LI_(j_N) _(l) _(_g) to obtain a layer image LI_(j_N) _(l) ′=LI_(j_N) _(l) _(_b)−_(j_N) _(l) _(_g) which has rich edge information; 2.3.3.5). calculating top-layer fusion images, where the top-layer fusion image of R channel is: Fu_(j_N) _(l) _(_r)=CI_(j_rN) _(l) +αCI_(j_rN) _(l) ′+βLI_(j_N) _(l) ′, the top-layer fusion image of G channel is: Fu_(j_N) _(l) _(_g)=CI_(j_gN) _(l) +αCI_(j_gN) _(l) ′+βLI_(j_N) _(l) ′, the top-layer fusion image of B channel is: Fu_(j_N) _(l) _(_r)=CI_(j_rN) _(l) +αCI_(j_rN) _(l) ′+βLI_(j_N) _(l) ′; 2.3.3.6). to the layer fusion images other than the top-layer fusion images, for the reason of retaining the rich color information, assigning the layer fusion images of R channel according to equation Fu=_(j_w_r)=CI_(j_rw), the layer fusion images of G channel according to equation Fu_(j_w_g)=CI_(j_gw) and the layer fusion images of B channel according to equation Fu_(j_w_b)=CI_(j_bw), where w=1, 2, . . . , N_(l)−1; 2.3.3.7). based on all layer fusion images of each color channel, performing N_(l)-layer Laplacian pyramid composition to obtain fusion images of each color channel, thus the color fusion image of the j^(th) pose is obtained and denoted by Fu_(j); 2.4). reconstructing a color point cloud: 2.4.1). performing color reconstruction on point cloud of each pose to obtain color point clouds {tilde over (P)}₁, {tilde over (P)}₂, . . . , {tilde over (P)}_(m): 2.4.1.1). to each point p_(ji)(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)) of the three-dimensional point cloud P_(j) of the measured high-precision mechanical component of the j^(th) pose, performing a coordinate system conversion from three-dimensional point to pixel point: ${Z_{c}\begin{bmatrix} a_{ji} \\ b_{ji} \\ 1 \end{bmatrix}} = {{\begin{bmatrix} f_{x} & 0 & u_{0} & 0 \\ 0 & f_{y} & v_{0} & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 & 0 \end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix} R_{c} & T_{c} \\ \overset{\rightarrow}{0} & 1 \end{bmatrix}}\begin{bmatrix} x_{ji} \\ y_{ji} \\ z_{ji} \\ 1 \end{bmatrix}}$ where z_(c) is a scale factor, f_(x) and f_(y) are respectively the focal lengths of camera in the x and y direction, u₀ and v₀ are respectively the coordinates of camera's main point on pixel plane, R_(c) and T_(c) are respectively the rotation matrix and the translation vector in camera calibration parameters, (a_(ji),b_(ji)) are the coordinates of the pixel point q_(ij) corresponding to the point p_(ji)(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)) of the three-dimensional point cloud P_(j), i is the serial number of the point; 2.4.1.2). obtaining pixel value R(a_(ji),b_(ji)) of R channel, pixel value G(a_(ji),b_(ji)) of G channel and pixel value B(a_(ji),b_(ji)) of B channel of pixel point at coordinates (a_(ji),b_(ji)) on the color fusion image Fu_(j), then assigning pixel values to the point p_(ji)(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)) of the three-dimensional point cloud P_(j) according to the following equations: R(x_(ji),y_(ji),z_(ji))=R(a_(ji),b_(ji)), G(x_(ji),y_(ji),z_(ji))=G(a_(ji),b_(ji)) and B(x_(ji),y_(ji),z_(ji))=B(a_(ji),b_(ji)) to obtain color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j), j=1, 2, . . . , m, where R(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)), G(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)) and B(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)) are respectively the point values of R, G and B channel of point p_(ji)(x_(ji), y_(ji), z_(ji)) of color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j); 2.4.2). registering the color point clouds of all poses: based on the series of rigid body transformation matrices W₁, W₂, . . . , W_(m−1) which are obtained according to step 2.2, performing registration by respectively converting the color point clouds {tilde over (P)}₂, {tilde over (P)}₃, . . . , {tilde over (P)}_(m) to the coordinate system of the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}₁, where the color point clouds after conversion are respectively denoted by {tilde over (P)}₂*, {tilde over (P)}₃*, . . . , {tilde over (P)}_(m)*, there have: {tilde over (P)} ₂ *=W ₁ {tilde over (P)} ₂ {tilde over (P)} ₃ *=W ₁ W ₂ {tilde over (P)} ₃ . . . {tilde over (P)} _(m) *=W ₁ W ₂ . . . W _(m−1) {tilde over (P)} _(m) 2.4.3). fusing the overlapping part of the color point clouds: setting {tilde over (G)}₁*={tilde over (P)}₁*={tilde over (P)}₁, then fusing the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}₂* with the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}₁* to obtain a color point cloud {tilde over (G)}₂* to j=2, 3, . . . m−1, successfully fusing the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)* with the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j)* to obtain a color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j+1)*, and finally obtaining a fused overall color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(m)* that the high-precision true color three dimensional reconstruction is complete; where the fusion of the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)* and the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j)* is: to the matching point pair in the point-to-point set C_(j_key_k′)′, directly taking it as a correspondence point pair and putting it into a correspondence point pair set Co_(j); to a non-matching point {tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*({tilde over (x)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (y)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (z)}_(j+1_i)*) of the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)*, finding the nearest point in the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)* by using KD tree, and then calculating the average value σ of all distances between non-matching points and their respective nearest points; simultaneously, to each non-matching point of the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j)*, finding the nearest point in the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)* by using KD tree, if the distance of the nearest point is less than the average value σ, then the non-matching point of the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j)* and its nearest point in the color point cloud {tilde over (P)}_(j+1)* are taken as a correspondence point pair and put into the correspondence point pair set Co_(j); weighting geometric coordinates of each correspondence point pair {{tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*({tilde over (x)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (y)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (z)}_(j+1_i)*), {tilde over (g)}_(j_i)*({tilde over (x)}_(j_i)*, {tilde over (y)}_(j_i)*, {tilde over (z)}_(j_i)*)} in the correspondence point pair set Co_(j) with the weights α_(i) and β_(i) to obtain the coordinates of a fused point {tilde over (g)}_(j+1_i)*: (α_(i){tilde over (x)}_(j+1_i)*+β_(i){tilde over (x)}_(j_i)*,α_(i){tilde over (y)}_(j+1_i)*+β_(i){tilde over (y)}_(j+1_i)*,α_(i){tilde over (z)}_(j+1_i)*+β_(i)z_(j_i)*) respectively weighting the point values of R, G and B channel of each correspondence point pair {{tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*({tilde over (x)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (y)}_(j+1_i)*, {tilde over (z)}_(j+1_i)*), {tilde over (g)}_(j_i)*({tilde over (x)}_(j_i)*, {tilde over (y)}_(j_i)*, {tilde over (z)}_(j_i)*)} in the correspondence point pair set Co_(j) with the weights (α_(ri),β_(ri)), (α_(gi),β_(gi)) and (α_(bi),β_(bi)) to obtain the point values R({tilde over (g)}_(j+1_i)*), G({tilde over (g)}_(j+1_i)*) and B({tilde over (g)}_(j+1_i)*) of R, G and B channel of the point {tilde over (g)}_(j+1_i)* of the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j+1)*: R({tilde over (g)} _(j+1_i)*)=α_(ri) R({tilde over (p)} _(j+1_i)*)+β_(ri) R({tilde over (g)} _(j_i)*) G({tilde over (g)} _(j+1_i)*)=α_(gi) G({tilde over (p)} _(j+1_i)*)+β_(gi) G({tilde over (g)} _(j_i)*) B({tilde over (g)} _(j+1_i)*)=α_(bi) B({tilde over (p)} _(j+1_i)*)+β_(bi) B({tilde over (g)} _(j_i)*) where, i=1, 2, . . . , N_(coj), N_(coj) is the number of the correspondence point pairs, R({tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*), G({tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*) and ({tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*) are respectively the point values of R, G and B channel of the point {tilde over (p)}_(j+1_i)*, R({tilde over (g)}_(j_i)*), G({tilde over (g)}_(j_i)*) and B({tilde over (g)}_(j_i)*) are respectively the point values of R, G and B channel of the point {tilde over (g)}_(j_i)* of the color point cloud {tilde over (G)}_(j+1)*. 